Flow Motion Timelapse - How is this Achieved?

[RobbieKB]

https://vimeo.com/robwhitworth/dubai

Firstly, this is incredibly impressive and must have taken huge amounts of work.

There's very few things left in photography that I have no idea how it was done, but this is one of them! I genuinely wouldn't know where to start. It's not that I'm looking to recreate it as much as it is intellectual curiosity. Does anyone know how this has been done?

[droopsnoot]

One of the first comments has a link to another site that seems to be for people making these 'hyperlapse' films, perhaps looking around there? I didn't follow it as I'm on a crappy connection and everything was taking hours (OK, not quite hours as such) to load.

[jingars]

RobbieKB said:

https://vimeo.com/robwhitworth/dubai

Technically impressive and also beautiful; thanks for posting it up

[Some Gump]

IIRC it's a new algorithm that was written to stop jerky time lapse. I fist saw it on a rock climbing tech demo (that someone had posted on PH).

The system apparently crops a smaller scene from a wider angle one and "understands" where it is in 3D - and picks the cropping of each frame to make the camera follow the virtual 3D path. I _think_ this is the same thing, and if so it'll explain the slightly "wireframe" movement of that long zoom / fly along near the end..

..Of course I'm no expert, please don't feed me to the wlves if it's summit else!

[RobbieKB]

Some Gump said:

IIRC it's a new algorithm that was written to stop jerky time lapse. I fist saw it on a rock climbing tech demo (that someone had posted on PH).

The system apparently crops a smaller scene from a wider angle one and "understands" where it is in 3D - and picks the cropping of each frame to make the camera follow the virtual 3D path. I _think_ this is the same thing, and if so it'll explain the slightly "wireframe" movement of that long zoom / fly along near the end..

..Of course I'm no expert, please don't feed me to the wlves if it's summit else!

I know the exact video you're referring to. Developed by Microsoft wasn't it? It may well be that technique. It'd make sense. The transitions are so well done.

[The_Jackal]

I think there is a Hyperlapse app on iOS that uses this new kind of algorithm.

[rottie102]

You need to hire a Superman and many quickly walking people.

HTH

[ecsrobin]

RobbieKB said:

https://vimeo.com/robwhitworth/dubai

Firstly, this is incredibly impressive and must have taken huge amounts of work.

There's very few things left in photography that I have no idea how it was done, but this is one of them! I genuinely wouldn't know where to start. It's not that I'm looking to recreate it as much as it is intellectual curiosity. Does anyone know how this has been done?

Apparently it takes around 700hours per film he makes. And over 800gb of data

[RobDickinson]

I can well imagine that , these things are serious time and resource hogs.

I think its very well done, but its a bit garish and inyour face for me to enjoy.

[baz7175]

I remember finding Rob's vid "This is Shanghai" during my year and a bit out there with work in 2013, it looks like he's improved what was already really good to make it even better...

[vescaegg]

That was just brilliant.

[LongQ]

ecsrobin said:

Apparently it takes around 700hours per film he makes. And over 800gb of data

800TB I would have thought. And some serious hardware to process it.

[dxbtiger]

Rightly getting a lot of attention here, it's a nice showcase for my little village

Very impressive work.